On Monday 29 November 2004 22:02, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Monday, November 29, 2004 02:51:53 PM -0500 Brian Barto > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, I have a dell latitude c505 laptop that has a build-in wireless > > nic, but when I loaded freebsd 5.3 it did not detect it. I'm guess i have > > to load a driver via kldload but I have no idea what driver it could be. > > Anyone know off hand? Dell's website isn't any help. > > I'm pretty sure all the Dell built-ins are Orinoco cards. man wi(4) should > be the right one. It lists the Dell Truemobile card. > > If your wireless network uses wep, you need to issue a command similar to > this: > > ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \ > wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624 > > Or, in /etc/rc.conf, use something like this: > > ifconfig_wi0="inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xfffff00 ssid my_net\ > wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624" > > If you're using dhcp for ip/mask assignment, then something like this: > > ifconfig_wi0="inet ssid my_net wepmode on wepkey 0x8736639624" That will result in errors... You're trying to set the ip-address of the interface to "ssid".
If you want to use DHCP and also want to set specific options to the interface (like the ssid / wep-key), you'll need to create a startup-script for the interface. In /etc/rc.conf you just say you want wi0 to get an address via DHCP : ifconfig_wi0="DHCP" And in a file named "/etc/start_if.wi0" : ifconfig wi0 ssid "the name of the network" wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 grtz, Daan _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
